For obvious reasons, a mage’s mystic or technological practices often reflect and project that mage’s Resonance. After all, such practices reflect and focus that person’s Enlightened Will, and so that Will manifests the Resonance while that Resonance manifests the Will.

When you think about that, it becomes clear why shamans have an earthy presence, witches prefer rough natural settings and symbols, mechanistic technicians favor shiny labs or hum ming workshops, and Black Suits cast their imperious glare from behind dark glasses that hide their eyes while reflecting a victim’s own face back at him. All of those characters em body their practice, and their practices come from within the deepest parts of their identities. In a very real sense, a mage’s practice focuses her innermost self; its trappings become her symbols, and her identity settles into those trappings. When a mage speaks of “attuning herself” to a deck of Tarot cards, a wand, or a new car, she’s consciously or subconsciously linking herself to that focus through Resonance… and, for that reason those things soon start to “feel like her.”

For examples of this sort of thing, see the descriptions of mages and their focuses which are provided in this book’s Chapter Three, pp. 176-187.